Close Encounters of the Third Kind | This Means Something...
- Forgotten Cinema
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
...this is important. Before we watch and record a Now Showing episode about Steven Spielberg's latest alien film, Disclosure Day, we're going back to a simpler time in America where people didn't trust the government and believed there were people in the sky...the 70s! Wait...something feels familiar. We're discussing Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
There are countless things to love in this movie, and we try to get through all of them without handing you a 90 minute episode. And quite a bit of controversy as well. We had the producer and cinematographer fighting, culminating in a firing and multiple DPs coming onto the production. The script was written by a variety of people, which led to the credit being vacated and our trusty sliding in to take it. The movie was edited in secret in an apartment. A producer with a wicked cocaine habit was fired.
In the grand scheme of Hollywood, these stories are a dime a dozen. The price of doing business in tinsel town. But we're here to celebrate a great movie, with great acting and great storytelling. Find out what we had to say!
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